The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations tha...(展开全部)

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people? This issue has underpinned two divergent theoretical orientations tha...(展开全部)

Duncan Kennedy is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists of the day. This is a major effort summarizing, clarifying, and elaborating his views on the core questions of jurisprudence. Kennedy's argument is about the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decisionmaking. It follows directly and self-consciously in a centuries-old line of debate tha...(展开全部)

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

Schneider challenges the assumptions on which anthropology has depended for the last century by showing that one of the major categories in terms of which social life has been understood is largely untenable. The idea of kinship is subject to penetrating scrutiny. Unlike the proverbial Emperor, it is not that kinship has no clothes. The question is whether there is anything at ...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德·索恩—雷特尔（Alfred Sohn—Rethel）（1899—1990）。德国著名的国民经济学家和社会哲学家，曾任不莱梅大学教授。早年曾师从奥地利马克思主义学派经济学家勒德尔（Emil Lederer），于1928年在海德堡获得国民经济学博士学位。其哲学思想接近法兰克福学派，从20世纪20年代开始便与批判理论的代表人物阿多诺、霍克海默和本雅明等交往密切。二战期间流亡英国，曾为丘吉尔等人从事过经济分析，并长期与马克思主义者汤普森交往。雷特尔的哲学思想即在本书中系统阐述的唯物主义认识理论，曾在20世纪60年代的激进学生运动中产生重要影响。作者还著有《认识的社会学理论》、《商品形式与思维形式》等。

阿尔弗雷德·索恩—雷特尔（Alfred Sohn—Rethel）（1899—1990）。德国著名的国民经济学家和社会哲学家，曾任不莱梅大学教授。早年曾师从奥地利马克思主义学派经济学家勒德尔（Emil Lederer），于1928年在海德堡获得国民经济学博士学位。其哲学思想接近法兰克福学派，从20世纪20年代开始便与批判理论的代表人物阿多诺、霍克海默和本雅明等交往密切。二战期间流亡英国，曾为丘吉尔等人从事过经济分析，并长期与马克思主义者汤普森交往。雷特尔的哲学思想即在本书中系统阐述的唯物主义认识理论，曾在20世纪60年代的激进学生运动中产生重要影响。作者还著有《认识的社会学理论》、《商品形式与思维形式》等。